Narrating injustice survival : self-medication by victims of crime / Willem de Lint, Marinella Marmo.

Narrating injustice survival : self-medication by victims of crime / Willem de Lint, Marinella Marmo.

This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery. Based on interviews, counsellor focus groups and a self-medication survey, it situates self-medication among the coping strategies that may be set in formal and informal networks. Victims primarily seek validation, and this book reviews self-medication with particular focus on how victim-survivors develop a variety of reflexive responses in their attempt to carve out a dignified response to victimization. Validation may be achieved through the pursuit of justice, but many victims suffer from multiple or complex victimisation, with limited social chances necessary to achieve a just outcome. Routines, beliefs and an ordered pathway distinguish a dignified identity and more or less successful recovery adaptations. This book also addresses the practical implications of the findings for support organisations.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Marmo, Marinella.

SpringerLink (Online service)

1 online resource (xi, 224 p.) : ill.

eng

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10.1007/978-3-319-93494-5 doi

9783319934938 (hbk.)

9783319934945 (PDF ebook)

9783319934938 (hbk.)

Palgrave studies in victims and victimology

Palgrave studies in victims and victimology.